23. Section 37 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows :
| (1) by the repeal of subsections (I) and (2) of that section, and the substitution therefor of the following subsections :
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| | | (a) The registered owner or any person in possession of a motor vehicle may on or before the thirty-first day of December in any year give written notice to the licensing authority that he does not intend to use the motor vehicle for such period, not less than six months, commencing on the first day of January in the succeeding year as may be specified in the notice : |
| (b) Where a person comes into possession of a motor vehicle during the course of any year, he may, within seven days after the date of coming into possession of the motor vehicle, give written notice that he does not intend to use the motor vehicle for such period commencing on that day, as may be specified in the notice. |
| (c) Where the registered owner of a motor vehicle surrenders a revenue licence of a motor vehicle for cancellation under section 40 he may give written notice on or before the date of surrender as may be specified in the notice : |
| (d) Where the revenue licence for a motor coach or lorry expires at any time before the thirty-first day of December in any year, the registered owner of that motor coach or lorry may give written notice on or before the date of such expiry that he does not intend to use that motor coach or lorry for such period commencing on the date of such expiry as may be specified in the notice. |
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| (2) The registered owner of a motor vehicle, in respect of which notice of a period of non-user has been given under subsection (1), may by written notice given before the expiry of that period further extend the period : |
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(2) by the insertion immediately of or subsection (5) of that section, of the following new subsection :
| | " (5A) Where a person has not specified the period of non-user in any notice given under subsection (1) but, within fourteen days after the date of giving that notice, specifies that period in writing, he shall be deemed to have specified that period in that notice.". | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts